Lokesh Joshi

Prof. Lokesh Joshi is Director of the Advanced Glycoscience Research Cluster and leader of the Glycoscience Group at NUI Galway, a Co-Director of CÚRAM, a medical device centre, and the Vice-President for Research at NUI Galway. His principal focus of research is in understanding the roles of glycans and lectins in health and diseases and developing novel technologies for glycomics. Prof. Joshi has been involved in two spin out companies, Arizona Engineered Therapeutics (AzERx) and Aquila...See more

Prof. Lokesh Joshi is Director of the Advanced Glycoscience Research Cluster and leader of the Glycoscience Group at NUI Galway, a Co-Director of CÚRAM, a medical device centre, and the Vice-President for Research at NUI Galway. His principal focus of research is in understanding the roles of glycans and lectins in health and diseases and developing novel technologies for glycomics. Prof. Joshi has been involved in two spin out companies, Arizona Engineered Therapeutics (AzERx) and Aquila Biosciences. The NIH and VC sources funded AzERx to develop peptide-based therapeutics for vascular applications and AzERx was acquired by Orthologic (Now Capstone Therapeutics) in 2006. Aquila Bioscience is a healthcare company working on various projects funded by EI, EU, European Defence Agency and private industries. Prof. Joshi is an SFI-Stokes Professor of Glycosciences and the Irish representative on European Universities Association's Research Programme Working group. See less